The city of Palo Alto is considering new rules to cut out light pollution and they could go so far as a 10 p.m. curfew on all ...

For Palo Alto's conservationists, the adoption of a "dark sky" law is a bright idea that is long overdue. But as the City ...

An ornithologist spent four decades tracking 40,000 bird deaths at a single building. His records paved the way to better ...

From the outside, a planetarium and an observatory might look a somewhat similar, but it's what's inside that counts.

The city of Palo Alto is considering new rules to cut out light pollution and they could go so far as a 10 p.m. curfew on all outdoor lights. Reportedly - 80% of Americans can't see the Milky Way ...

If you have a garden, birds are disturbed from sleep in it by lighting and can begin singing there before dawn, says the ...

Right after launching, a bunch of satellites heading to join the megaconstellation looks like a string of moving stars going up in the sky. Within a week or so, they reach a higher elevation and are ...

Ultrafast electron imaging reveals never-before-seen nuclear motions in hydrocarbon molecules triggered by light. The ...

Those options include reducing light pollution and helping birds see windows as solid surfaces. Andrew Farnsworth, a visiting scientist at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, said the efficacy of ...